Innovation research and organizational practice often focuses on R&D investments and activitiescarried out in designated departments and controlled processes. Anecdotal evidence tells us,however, that this centralized and formalistic approach to innovation is often insufficient. Asignificant...

Does evolutionary theory help, for a theory of the firm, or, more widely, a theory oforganization? In this paper I argue that it does, to some but also limited extent.Evolutionary theories of economies, and of culture, have acquired considerablefollowing, but have also been subject to...

How does the environment of an organization inuence whether workersvoluntarily provide eort? We study the power relationship betweena non-prot unit (e.g. university department, NGO, healthtrust), where workers care about the result of their work, and a bu-reaucrat, who supplies some input to the...

Despite the attention that strategic change as a topic of research has received, there remainconsiderable difficulties in conceptualizing the actual sources of strategic change. Using theconcept of strategic episodes, this paper develops an endogenous theory of change, where thesources of change...

The paper outlines a comparison of UML Activity Diagrams (AD)with the EPC 'blueprints' in a worldwide SAP-project of a large German enterprise.Our case study was performed in the firm's sales company in a North-European country. The paper designs artifacts for organizational process...

We use a principal-agent framework to reexamine the implications of the negligence and strict liability rules when the tortfeasor is an agency. (...)

A model where a portion of the population participates in illegal activities is developed. The propensity to participate in crimes depends on the probability and the opportunity cost of beingarrested. The government can influence these variables by law enforcement expenditures and by social...

We provide a condition for ranking of information systems in agencyproblems. The condition has a straightforward economic interpretation in terms of the sensitivity of a cumulative distribution with respect to the agents effort. The criterion is shown to be equivalent to the mean preserving...

This paper deals with endogenous determination of effort as a source of productivity growth.

This paper discusses the impact of the dynamics of motivation on new organizational forms that are suited to forge value-creating knowledge transfers in teams and between organizational units and functions.(...)